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In Medoc country, each wine production is made by a castle. Most of them were built during the 19th century, sometimes in the end of the 18th. All are luxuous mansions. For few of them, family still live inside, since generations, and for less fortunate who sold their castle, they are not habited, and remain like a window of the past.

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Some photos from last week at Asthall Manor. A dreamy Jacobean Cotswolds manor house that was the childhood home of the Mitford sisters. Everything about Asthall Manor is romantic – the gables, the roses, the lake, the ballroom, and the swans on the willow-bordered River Windrush. The house, which dates from 1620, was immortalised as Alconleigh in Nancy Mitford’s ‘The Pursuit of Love’. Fans of the 1945 novel will be thrilled to learn that the ‘Hons’ cupboard’ remains intact at the top of the…

The English manor house, called Rookwoods, comes with a pool, equestrian facilities and a tennis court

A refined and historic mansion in the pastoral English countryside that is tied to British—and Hollywood—royalty has just hit the market for £13.5 million (US$17.7 million). The more than 300-year-old home is in Hampshire—an area also known as Jane Austen’s County for being the author’s beloved home for much of her life—is known as Shawford Park and the manor is thought to date to 1685.

A new book by designer David Mlinaric and photographer Derry Moore covers the history of English interior design from the sixteenth century to the present day, lingering on some of the great houses in the UK, from Chatsworth to Charleston.

Suddenly the Queen (who's feeling the pinch herself) is insisting her cousins (whose greed and spending are legendary) pay £120,000 for their Palace apartment. How on earth will they cope?